East Timor has become a stable democracy after securing independence in 2002. But its finances are precarious, and nearly half of its people live in poverty. Vendors at the Taibesi market in Dili ...

DILI, East Timor – Three decades ago, he was a scrappy campaigner roaming the world’s corridors of power with a dream to win independence for his tiny homeland. Today, at 75, Mr Jose Ramos ...

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The 88-year-old was for a time critically ill as he battled pneumonia in both lungs at Rome's Gemelli hospital, where he was ...

“I am touched by his humility — everything about him reflects it.” Catarina Baros, 16, in Dili, East Timor, said that she had just come from Mass and had lit a candle before a statue of St ...

Cleziel Gonzales from Danao City in northern Cebu was recently seen strolling a mall in Cebu City with her pet chicken named ...

It was 2010 and the newly independent country, still reeling from decades of occupation and destruction, was desperate to keep the lights on in its capital, Dili ... of the Asia-Pacific ...

Aero Dili's flight 8G881 made its inaugural landing recently at ... Timor-Leste is located on Timor Island, the eastern part of the Indonesian archipelago in Southeast Asia, with a land area of 15,000 ...

As Southeast Asia’s most democratic country ... Recent progress on negotiations over the Greater Sunrise oil and gasfield has also sparked optimism in Dili. Negotiator Steve Bracks and his Timorese ...

During his ocean debut from Darwin to Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste ... and both boats and trains in South Asia. Sacha Shaw on one of many stops along his eco-travel journey. Photo submitted by ...

Education officials in Catholic-majority nation say student abuse will not be tolerated after two recent scandals ...